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A Servant Plays for High Stakes by Vithal Rajan
RolesMinimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience.
SynopsisGame Four in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. British Chess Champion Sultan Khan recreates his 1932 defeat of Frederick Yates as an allegory for Gandhi's non-violent resistance to British colonial occupation of India.
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Shakespeare's Last Act by Joan Greening
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three male characters (so possibly a counterpoint to the three female characters in Joan Greening's Three Women and Shakespeare's Will.)
Run TimeAround 36 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleWitty one-act comedy play in a single set (and not much of that), with plenty of Shakespeare references and a poignant ending.
SynopsisShakespeare is working on his final play, Henry VIII, collaborating with John Fletcher. The working relationship is tetchy. Shakespeare's friend, Richard Burbage, assumes he will get the lead, but Fletcher has other ideas. Shakespeare comes up with a plot to get his friend the part.
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Silver Linings by Bob Hammond
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 23 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act drama with a single (clifftop bench) setting.
SynopsisA young man has had an argument with his girlfriend and has spent the night on a bench. The old tramp who usually uses the bench, in a fatherly fashion, draws out the difficulties the young man has had throughout his life and identifies a silver lining for himself.
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The Sinister Mrs Eaves by Robert Black
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleShort one-act play, single set (Sherlock Holmes' study).
SynopsisHolmes and Watson tackle the bizarre case of the Sinister Mrs Eaves and twenty-one-and-a-half Harper Street without leaving their comfortable rooms at 221b Baker Street. A fine Holmes mystery with more than a touch of humour.
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Small Talk by Martin Ward
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 32 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicOne song suggested, to be played at rise. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script.
StyleA one act drama with a single (living room) setting.
SynopsisMark has invited Ian to his flat for a drink, but Ian doesn’t know why. In fact, they went to the same school twenty years before, and Ian was a bully who made Mark's life a misery. Now Mark has plans to gain revenge.
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Split Infinitives by JJ Crossley
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. All three characers are written as male, but need not be!
Run TimeAround 36 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleSimple-to-stage one-act comedy play (packed with sci-fi silliness.)
SynopsisAn unscrupulous pair of business executives hatch a plan to establish once and for all the exact age of the universe, and reap the fame and rewards, by recruiting a test pilot for their recently acquired, but rather unreliable time machine.
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Squirrel Caper by Jamie Hope
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 33 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleA one-act comedy with a single (park bench) setting.
SynopsisA gang of squirrels mastermind a plan to mug an old lady who visits the park every day. Their meticulous plan hits a snag when the old lady unexpectedly brings her dog with her and a pesky chipmunk tries to muscle in on the action.
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Stairway to Heaven by Johnny Grim
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three middle-aged blokes, one of whom is the Archangel Gabriel.
Run TimeAround 25 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy play, single set (or lack of set, since it takes place at the the ultimate ephemeral location - just outside the pearly gates). Australian in tone, but universal in humour.
SynopsisRobbie, a biker, meets Alfred, a civil servant, outside the gates to heaven. Unpredictably, they get on quite well, but there's been a bit of a mix-up, and the angel Gabe isn't sure if either of them should be going in...
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Stan and Tony by Clive David Lloyd Williams
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 54 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act comedy drama on a single (living room) set.
SynopsisOne afternoon in the 1960s, two giants of British comedy met briefly, when Tony Hancock visited Stan Laurel at his home in Santa Monica. Hancock was a very successful radio and TV star of the 1950s and 60s whilst Laurel’s slapstick movies with Oliver Hardy were top box office in the 1920s-40s. This is a play suggesting events which may have taken place during their unpublicised encounter.
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The Substitute by Duncan Battman
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 30 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicNone.
StyleOne-act play in the form of a monologue. Dramatic content, though the direct action is minimal. Contains strong language and adult themes.
SynopsisA long but dramatic monologue delivered by Frank, an ex-footballer who is now confined to a wheelchair. As he packs up his room he relates the ups and downs of his life, right up to the startling conclusion.
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